Novell, Inc. is a global software and services company based in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company specializes in

enterprise operating systems, such as SUSE Linux Enterprise and Novell NetWare; identity, security, and systemsmanagement solutions; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise and Novell Pulse. Novell was instrumentalin making the Utah Valley a focus for technology and software development. Novell technology contributed to theemergence of local area networks, which displaced the dominant mainframe computing model and changed computingworldwide. Today, a primary focus of the company is on developing open source software for enterprise clients.

============================3) Technical details============================The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error in GroupWise Internet Agent (gwia.exe)when copying request data and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by e.g.sending a specially crafted request with the "Content-Length" header value set to "-1" to the web-basedadministration interface (TCP port 9850). Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.